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Drawing on his own experiences of the Middle East, John McCarthy travels through Israel to uncover the hidden story of the Palestinian struggle.
Transported as a young boy by his father's tales of Palestine, John McCarthy has always been drawn to the mystique of the Middle East. Remarkably, his first-hand experience of its brutal conflicts -- he was kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon for five years -- only strengthened his determination to return and explore its myriad complexities.
In the years since his ordeal, McCarthy travelled through Israel and East Jerusalem, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Bedouin encampments of the Negev desert. His intensely moving encounters with the inhabitants of this beautiful but tormented region reveal the continuing tragedy of the Palestinians who remained in Israel after its formation in 1948 -- and who still dare to think of it as home.
You Can't Hide the Sun weaves their vivid testimonies with McCarthy's own experience of living under constant threat. And in doing so it asks: how can humanity endure in the face of unimaginable oppression, and how can any of us thrive without a place of safety?
- Sales Rank: #3510066 in Books
- Published on: 2013-07-01
- Released on: 2013-07-01
- Format: International Edition
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x .98" w x 5.00" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Review
"A powerful account of the Palestinians of Israeli citizenship as told in their own words. Eloquent and moving, this book is essential reading to understand the full complexity of Palestinian-Israeli relations." Eugene Rogan, Author of The Arabs: A History "John McCarthy takes us on an unforgettable journey through a tumultuous and complex landscape. His passion and humanity are all the more remarkable in the context of his own brutal experience of the dark side of its political context." Tom Bradby, Political Editor, ITV News "From a man who knows much about human spirit's refusal to be cowed comes a beautifully written, compassionate and insightful account of Israel's non-Jewish population. You Can't Hide The Sun does not just champion a people too long bullied, marginalised and ignored - it drives home that without heeding their voice no long term solution of Israel-Palestine is possible." Tim Butcher, author of Blood River "John McCarthy's excellent book focuses in on Palestinian citizens of Israel, who sometimes get ignored as a complexity too far. McCarthy doesn't hide his sympathy for the human beings who have been battered by Middle East conflict. Perhaps that's because he was caught up in it too when he was held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years between 1986 and 1991. Like Palestinians, and Jews, he longed for the sanctuary of home. McCarthy made it home. But in his journey through Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories he finds Palestinians who are still waiting, hoping and struggling for their homes more than 60 years after Israel was created. Fascinating and timely, and written with the charm of a man who's still determined to explore the tempestuous region that for five years was just a dream on the other side of his locked cell door." Jeremy Bowen
About the Author
As a journalist in television news JOHN McCARTHY was sent on his first foreign assignment to Beirut in 1986 aged twenty-nine. His career was abruptly cut short by militiamen who kidnapped and held him captive for five and a half years. Since his release he has written four books prior to this one -- Some Other Rainbow (with Jill Morrell), about his hostage years, Island Race (with Sandi Toksvig), an account of their circumnavigation of Britain, Between Extremes (with Brian Keenan), a journey through Chile and his latest, A Ghost Upon Your Path. He continues to work in both radio and television.
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Exceptional perspective
By dannie russell
I met John McCarthy at a literature festival in Dubai. He writes as a journalist, but i found the information poignant, relevant and written from a perspective that, thankfully, few of us understand, that of being a captive held hostage. This perspective of the middle east is valuable if we are to understand the Palestinian/Israeli issues. in a way, it is a continuation of Some Other Rainbow and Between Extremes.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A book of revelations
By Edward B. Crutchley
I remember, back in the 1970's, a lovely white South African girl visiting us in London exclaiming "I can't believe it! White men cleaning the streets." She was one of several acquaintances from that country at the time, and one sensed in too many of our conversations a total disregard and often contempt for their indigenous population. You see, they would all say, we had it cosy and just didn't understand. Just as some of the most beautiful countries in the world remain dogged by conflict, so the Holy Land itself seems dogged by brutal unfairness.
John McCarthy's moving and brilliantly-written book is one of a lifetime, and talks of another grisly apartheid. So much of it seems impossible to believe, as a ruling majority, remorselessly ghettoing one in four of its population into submission and broken spirit, fritters away the moral capital it had accumulated before 1948. You would think they had so much to gain from setting a good example. You might have dreamed that the Arab Spring had come from good examples set in `democratic' Israel. From reading the book you get the impression that if you stopped an Israeli Palestinian and asked them from where his family hailed the answer would be a village that no longer exists (yes, they lived in villages and not tents). One even wonders whether there might even be yet another unfair law forbidding him from owning a bulldozer concession. No doubt President Clinton's Israeli homologue had a metaphorical sign on his desk saying "It's the land, stupid." Certainly Ben Gurion is quoted in the book as having said "Our border is where we dig the last furrow", and ever since his country has flouted so much of international opinion and made its own laws to suit. You learn how Arabs have been prevented from returning home, even if they had temporarily moved to a neighbouring village. McCarthy mentions a group of settlers that are even remorselessly and unfettered digging tunnels that stand chance of causing their Arab neighbour's houses to collapse. Since the nabka of 1948 the State of Israel appears to have accumulated a colossal debt to its indigenous population. Fortunately, McCarthy's book reminds us of numerous Palestinian heroes who are working in different ways to bring the communities together. Hopefully it's only a Purgatory, and that debt will someday be paid.
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Excellent!
By Amazon Customer
Wow! What a read!
It's a pity that this book has so few reviews. It should be read by all those Christian westerners who think Biblically, while claiming to be secular/modern.
McCarthy has shown a profound degree of impartiality and fairness in his account. He is even critical of his home country's policies, when most other westerners either skirt around such an issue or downplay it. I applaud him for his humanity, because he frequently draws upon the experiences of his own family/home/captivity, when hearing the plight of individual Palestinians-truly demonstrating moral equivalence.
His writing draws us in, as if it's an old friend sharing his experiences over a cup of tea.
As he travels to almost all enclaves/ghettos of Palestinians, we get a complete picture of life in Israel for the non-Jews or Muslims and Christians.
Life for non-Jews in Israel is the same as life was for the Jews in Christian Europe during the middle ages.
Two days ago, I finished the book, "The Jews: The Story of a People" by Howard Fast. Historically, The Jews had only 2 benefactors; the Persians and the Muslims. However, Muslim favors far exceeded those given by Persia, and even Fast admits-albeit he tries very hard not to-that the Jews and their Arab counterparts were equals in every way, in the Arab/Muslim empires of Baghdad(Iraq), Egypt and Spain.
This Muslim benefaction (is that even a word?) spanned a period of 1,200 years. The Jews repay the favor with genocide and ongoing oppression, all in the name of a Biblical prophecy fulfilled
The Chosen/special/civilized/peace loving/educated people have behaved in exactly that way; superior with corresponding rights and privileges. It is this fact, which lies at the heart of the Qur'an. No one is special/chosen/superior/holy/blessed simply because they were born that way. If and when people start believing that they are special/chosen, then they mete out injustices/cruelties and horrors upon all others.
Israel, as a land for the Jews has no basis in history or religion. Let's examine this claim.
The Christians support the Jewish claim to Israel because they believe that God gave the promised land to Abraham. The Jews claim Israel not because of Abraham, but due to Moses, a centuries removed descendant of Abraham. The followers of Moses were part of the exodus, but they never reached the promised land, as it was denied to them by God Himself. They wandered for 40 years and Moses passed away during this time. This fact is clearly stated in the Bible and the Qur'an.
Howard Fast states that the followers of Moses were not yet monotheists, and they followed various pagan Gods such as the bull worshipped by the Egyptians, amongst others. Howard Fast gets all intellectual and reasons that Moses' God Yahweh, was possibly a Volcano, because Mount Sinai exploded.
THIS was the iniquity because of which Palestine was denied to the followers of Moses. God would NEVER bless a people, who worshipped pagan deities, while their prophet Moses was calling them to faith. God Himself parted the red sea to drown the pharaoh and succor the children of Israel, but they responded with iniquity.
The Biblical promise is ridiculous if seen in light of Jewish beliefs. Let me explain this in analogy form.
Suppose the first of five children of an American millionaire is promised a certain villa in the south of France--which his dad owns--conditional upon him graduating cum laude from college.
Now suppose the son continuously denies the possibility that his father could own a villa in the south of France. He also continually disrespects and insults his father. Finally, he drops out of college in his sophomore year, saying that he prefers to pursue fame through stardom instead. His father then disowns him and cuts him off financially. The father also gives the villa in the south of France to his second son, who graduates college cum laude.
The eldest son, a college dropout, struggles as an aspiring artist and suffers privation and misery. A good 20 years pass and the destitute older son one day lands at the villa in the south of France, where his younger brother now lives with his family. At first the older brother is moved by the plight of his younger brother, and he welcomes him in his home.
A month later when he has rejuvenated due to his younger brother's hospitality, the older brother announces that the younger one better move out of the house or else, because the house was promised to him by his father.
He ignores that the promise was conditional and that it was forfeited as a result of bad conduct. He simply remembers the part that suits him. Being toughened as a result of years of living on the streets, he forces his younger brother out, and tells the world that he is finally reclaiming what was rightfully his.
That's the story of modern Israel.
The current plan of the Israeli establishment is to reclaim the kingdom of David (another prophet). Although this is not touted as a promise of God, it establishes historical claim upon the land. McCarthy tells us in this book that Israeli archeologists state that there was no Israelite presence in Jerusalem during the estimate reign of King David. The Qur'an, additionally tells us that both David and Jesus (peace be upon them both) cursed the children of Israel.
Israel is on the map, and doing what it is doing, because might makes right!
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